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Roland Perry · October 12th 16, 09:08 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 08:43:44 on Wed, 12 Oct
2016, d remarked:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:02:08 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:52:31 on Tue, 11 Oct
2016, d remarked:

It's the @gioia. part I'm interested in.

Is that user-specific, or do all aioe.org users get the same hostname?

You think every user who posts on this site gets a unique host to themselves?

That's what I'm asking, numbskull.

Yes, all the thousands of users who use aioe get a server to themselves!
For free!

It'd be a virtual server, obviously.

I don't need to produce anything pal. If you don't understand usenet thats
not my problem.

And you don't apparently understand NNTP posting hostnames.

Uh huh. If you'd bothered to do a lookup you'd have realised gioia.aioe.org
isn't even a valid DNS address, presumably gioia is either an internal server
name or just some ident they use.

Hosts don't have to be globally reachable, and none of this hostname
stuff is unique to nntp.

Anyway, looking closer at your headers the posting-hostname is

random looking string.user.gioia.aioe.org

But what would a numbskull know eh?

The difference between a server and a virtual server?

Why don't you try posting from the site yourself and see what pops up. Since
you're such an expert on NNTP you don't need to reconfigure your client, you
can do it just using telnet.

Why reinvent the wheel when I can ask ?
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Roland Perry